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PAL_CACHE_FLUSH
PAL_CACHE_FLUSH – Flush Data or Instruction Caches (1)
Purpose:
Flushes the processor instruction or data caches.
Calling Conv:
Static Registers Only
Mode:
Physical and Virtual
Buffer:
Not dependent
Arguments:
Returns:
Status:
Description:
Flushes the instruction or data caches controlled by the processor as specified by the
cache_type
parameter. Encoding for the
cache_type
parameter follows:
All other values of
cache_type
are reserved. If the cache is unified, both instruction and
data lines are flushed, regardless of the value of
cache_type
.
Flushing all caches containing instructions, causes the instruction and unified caches to
be flushed. Flushing all caches containing data, causes all data and unified caches to be
flushed. Flushing all caches causes all data, instruction, and unified caches to be
flushed.
When the caller specifies to make local instruction caches coherent with the data
caches, this procedure will ensure that the instruction caches on the processor that this
procedure call was made, will see the effects of stores to instruction code performed by
this processor. This procedure is not required to ensure coherency of instruction caches
on other processors in the system when this input argument is used. Refer to
Section 4.4.3, “Cacheability and Coherency Attribute” on page 2:77
information on stores and their coherency requirements with local instruction caches.
The effects of flushing data and unified caches is broadcast throughout the coherence
domain. The effects of flushing instruction caches may or may not be broadcast
Argument
Description
index
Index of PAL_CACHE_FLUSH within the list of PAL procedures.
cache_type
Unsigned 64-bit integer indicating which cache to flush. See
operation
Formatted bit vector indicating the operation of this call. See
progress_indicator
Unsigned 64-bit integer specifying the starting position of the flush operation.
Return Value
Description
status
Return status of the PAL_CACHE_FLUSH procedure.
vector
Unsigned 64-bit integer specifying the vector number of the pending interrupt.
progress_indicator
Unsigned 64-bit integer specifying the starting position of the flush operation.
Reserved
0
Status Value
Description
2
Call completed without error, but a PMI was taken during the execution of this
procedure.
1
Call has not completed flushing due to a pending interrupt
0
Call completed without error
-2
Invalid argument
-3
Call completed with error
Table 11-64.
cache_type
Encoding
Value
Description
1
Flush all caches containing instructions.
2
Flush all caches containing data.
3
Flush all caches (instruction and data).
4
Make local instruction caches coherent with the data caches.
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